A basic from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was killed in Syria on Thursday during a fight between terrorists and Syrian government troops, according to an Iranian news agency.
During the Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011, Tehran provided defense experts.
This year, jihadists and the military engaged in the worst fighting in years in northern Syria.
” General Kioumars Pourhashemi, one of Iran’s top experts in Aleppo, was killed in an assault carried out by takfiri criminal soldiers”, Tasnim news agency reported.
In Shiite-majority Iran, the name’ takfiri’ usually refers to terrorists or followers of extreme Sunni Islam.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS), led by Al-Qaeda’s former Syria branch, launched a surprise attack on the army in Aleppo province on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The battle has left more than 140 soldiers dead, the Britain-based battle check said.
A military adviser in Iraq and Syria, who was a member of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, was confirmed by the innovative troops as having died there.
Abbas Araghchi, the country’s foreign minister, claimed a US and Israeli “plan to destroy the stability and security of the place.”
